Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
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As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.
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Everyone in L.A. loves sushi, and I don't understand it at all.
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But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.
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Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
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Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school.
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
